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A man shot and killed on Thursday night on the North Side had lost his younger brother in a
fatal shooting this summer.

Columbus police reported no arrests yesterday in their investigation into the death of Brandon
Beard.

Officers were called at 9:20 p.m. Thursday to the area of 26th and Joyce avenues on a report of
gunfire. From there they were directed to 1774 E. 26th Ave.

Medics pronounced Beard, 23, dead inside the home at 9:32 p.m.

Sgt. Christ Holzhauser, supervisor of the second-shift homicide squad, said detectives have been
interviewing several people who were at the home when the shooting occurred. More details of what
occurred aren’t being released.

Holzhauser said Beard did not live at the home. Public records show that he recently lived on E.
19th Avenue. His mother and other relatives were gathered there yesterday but said they were too
distraught to comment.

Beard also has relatives on the block of 26th Avenue where the shooting occurred.

As police awaited a warrant to search the home more thoroughly on Thursday night, relatives and
friends cried out in anguish when they learned that Beard was dead.

Demetreous Beard was found dead near 607 Lance Court in the West Brook Mobile Home Community
near Hague Avenue and Harrison Road. The shooting remains unsolved.

Court records show that Brandon Beard had served short prison stretches for a burglary
conviction and most recently after a gun-possession arrest in July.

But in letters to the judge in his burglary case, and more recently on Facebook, Brandon Beard
spoke of becoming a better father to his children. In a discussion with a friend that he recounted
on Facebook, “I told him with three kids I feel so much different for real.”

Several times after his brother’s death, Brandon also addressed Demetreous directly on
Facebook.

“Wat up bro,” Brandon wrote just last week. “Im good, trying (to) do something different with
myself. I miss you so much bro ... but you know im waiting for that moment.”